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Newsroom
The most recent news items relevant to all Fisher College audiences are listed below.
Please direct Fisher news- and media-related inquiries to Patricia Allen, Associate News Director.
Latest headlines
- Reshoring Initiative founder discusses "Made in America"
- February 2, 2012
Harry Moser hopes companies like Cincinnati-based Freeman Schwabe Machinery are part of a new wave in American manufacturing. → Full story - KeyBank partners with Fisher in Financial Services Cluster
- January 30, 2012
Executives for KeyBank, the Financial Services Industry Cluster partner for Winter Quarter, not only want Fisher students to learn about their company. They are expected to be equally versed about KeyBank’s competitors. → Full story - Accounting study examines earning reports claims, lawsuits
- January 25, 2012
Last year, when a pension fund owning stock in Bank of New York Mellon brought suit against that financial behemoth, the fund not only took aim at the bank's allegedly fraudulent currency trading.
→ Full story - Second class of 10x, Ohio One Fund launches
- January 23, 2012
Aspiring business leaders with ideas for mobile and web-based applications for higher education, retail, news and entertainment industries are among the 10 teams joining the 2012 10-xelerator winter class. → Full story - MBOE program helps school district save money
- January 12, 2012
A school district might not have many similarities to a shop floor, but one Indiana school district is taking lessons from manufacturing principles in an effort to overhaul its operations.
→ Full story - Ohio outpaced national average for VC investment in 2010
- November 23, 2011
Ohio outpaced the national average in venture capital investment in 2010, increasing 81 percent over last year, according to a report developed by the Center for Entrepreneurship. → Full story - Ward named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute
- November 17, 2011
Fisher’s Peter Ward, Richard M. Ross Chair in Management and director of the Center for Operational Excellence, will be named a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute at its annual meeting in Boston on Sunday, Nov. 20. → Full story - Fisher team successfully defends Biz Quiz title
- November 17, 2011
Fisher undergraduates successfully defended their title in the Nationwide-Fisher Biz Quiz competition, where they challenged top business schools from around the country. Finance majors Adam Windnagel, Colin McMahon, and Alexander Doane made up the win → Full story - Fisher programs receive top ranking in Businessweek survey
- November 15, 2011
Fisher’s Executive MBA and MBA for Working Professionals achieved top rankings in Bloomberg Businessweek’s survey of the programs. → Full story - 10x joins TechStars, part of White House Startup America
- November 1, 2011
The 10-xelerator (10x), led by the Center for Entrepreneurship at Fisher, is now a member of the TechStars Network, an invitation-only White House sponsored alliance of independent startup accelerator programs. → Full story - Fisher MBAs win supply chain competition for 2nd year in a row
- October 31, 2011
MBA students Bart Fredric, Tim Renner and Kaushik Sriniyas defended Fisher’s title last weekend in the second annual Michigan State University Graduate Supply Chain Challenge. Fisher’s team was coached by Marc Ankerman. The team was awarded → Full story - Fisher Alumni Awards ceremony to be held on Oct. 28
- October 24, 2011
Five individuals to be honored at the 2011 Dean's Dinner and Alumni Awards on Friday, Oct. 28. → Full story - High social status makes people more trusting, study finds
- October 24, 2011
In three separate experiments, researchers found that high-status people tended to trust people more in initial encounters than did people with lower status. One experiment showed why: high-status people rated others as more benevolent, which led → Full story - Harley-Davidson CEO gives glimpse into world's iconic brand
- October 10, 2011
“I would argue that Harley-Davidson is the most iconic brand in the world,” the company’s CEO Keith Wandell told the members of the Center for Operational Excellence at the quarterly professional development seminar held on Sept. 30 a → Full story - Lambert receives medal from international logistics society
- October 10, 2011
The International Society of Logistics (SOLE) has selected Douglas M. Lambert, Raymond E. Mason Chair in Transportation and Logistics and director of the Global Supply Chain Forum, the 2011 recipient of the Society’s Armitage Medal. → Full story - Research Unveiled, Shows Commitment to Middle Market
- October 6, 2011
Results from the largest study ever of the U.S. Middle Market show this business segment is the nation’s surest bet for economic recovery. The study, a survey of more than 2,000 business leaders and analysis of economic data conducted by The O → Full story - Poon appointed to GMAC Board of Directors
- September 23, 2011
The Graduate Management Admission Council, the association of leading business schools around the world and owners of the GMAT exam, has announced that Christine A. Poon, dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business, has joined its Board of Directors. → Full story - Fisher MBAs participate in CNBC's Million Dollar Challenge
- September 23, 2011
A team of Fisher MBA students is facing off with MBAs from Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgetown, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Notre Dame and University of Texas Austin in the CNBC Million Dollar Portfolio Challenge MBA F → Full story - Newly renovated Mason Hall opens its doors
- September 16, 2011
After more than two years of planning and six months of construction work, Mason Hall reopened today with guests enjoying tours of the building as well as coffee and snacks from the new Rohr Café. → Full story - Study: quality problems more likely in offshore drug plants
- September 8, 2011
Drugs produced in offshore manufacturing plants –- even those run by U.S. manufacturers -- pose a greater quality risk than those prepared in the mainland United States, a new study suggests. → Full story - Hedge funds' stock selloff hurt mutual fund investors
- August 26, 2011
A new study of stock trading during the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 found that hedge funds sold their stocks much more aggressively than mutual funds at the first signs of poor performance. → Full story - Fisher students named Petro Fellows by Ohio Auditor
- August 11, 2011
Dean Poon joined Ohio Auditor of State David Yost and Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Jim Petro at the Ohio Statehouse to announce the first Petro Fellows — graduate students who will join the Ohio Performance Team. → Full story - Ben-David study shows how illegal tactics led to housing crash
- July 18, 2011
A study of home purchases during the real estate boom years in Chicago shows how one ethically murky – and sometimes illegal - tactic used to sell homes may have contributed to the housing crash. → Full story - Shenkar receives prestigious international business award
- July 7, 2011
The Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) awarded Oded Shenkar, the Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management, the JIBS Decade Award for his widely cited article “Cultural distance revisited: Towards a more rig → Full story - Stulz testifies before U.S. House subcommittee
- July 1, 2011
René Stulz, Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics at Fisher, provided testimony to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprise on June 24. → Full story - Semiconductor team wins 2011 business plan competition
- June 6, 2011
Ten Fisher College of Business students were apart of the eight teams receiving awards in the 2011 Ohio State University Business Plan Competition hosted by Fisher. → Full story - Tyson, Abbott receive 2011 Fisher Diversity Awards
- June 6, 2011
Fisher alumnus Jesse Tyson, an executive with ExxonMobil and a member of the Dean's Advisory Council, received the 2011 Individual Diversity Award. The corporate award was given to Abbott Nutrition. → Full story - Entrepreneurship professor brings diverse background to Fisher
- May 25, 2011
While a doctoral candidate, Justin Miller told some fellow American scholars at an Academy of Management (AOM) conference he was thinking about conducting research into the chocolate industry. → Full story - Executive Education develops Principal Leadership Academy
- May 25, 2011
After nearly a year of planning and preparation, Outreach & Engagement—in partnership with the Ohio Department of Education and Fisher College of Business has launched the Executive Principals Leadership Academy. → Full story - Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase CEO, visits Fisher
- May 19, 2011
Minutes after landing at a Columbus airport, Jamie Dimon's, JPMorgan Chase Chairman of the Board and CEO, first stop on his two-day visit to the city was Fisher College of Business. → Full story - Young professional teams selected for Fisher's accelerator
- May 13, 2011
The State of Ohio and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business have selected 10 teams of young entrepreneurs who will be moving to Columbus this summer to participate in the Ohio’s New Entrepreneurs (ONE) Fund pilot program.&l → Full story - Fisher student entrepreneur receives accolades from Microsoft
- May 9, 2011
Despite the fact 20-year-old Kenneth Harding is co-founder of a technology company; has more than a decade of experience as a programmer; is an award-winning Microsoft engineer and a licensed pilot, there is one thing that is extremely important to → Full story - Co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act speaks at Fisher
- April 27, 2011
Former Sen. Paul Sarbanes, co-author of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which overhauled federal oversight of public companies, spoke at Fisher on April 12. → Full story - Marketing students present brand ideas to Ohio State leaders
- April 25, 2011
The course was like a Marine Corps boot camp—grueling hours of tough and challenging exercises. The professor was compared to a brutal and unrelenting drill sergeant pushing his young charges to their limits. → Full story - Wilk's research work studies the impact of worker mood
- April 25, 2011
A new study of telephone customer service representatives shows just how important it is for employees to start the workday in a good mood. → Full story - Undergraduates take first place in Duff & Phelps competition
- April 19, 2011
Fisher's undergraduate team of Chris DiYanni, Zachary Messenger and John Weiler won the Duff & Phelps' YOUniversity Deal Challenge in New York City. → Full story - Logistics students win Broad Supply Chain Challenge
- April 19, 2011
A team of Fisher undergraduate logistics students captured first place at the Broad Supply Chain Challenge held April 7-8, 2011 at Michigan State University's Broad College of Business. → Full story - Fisher, Ohio Third Frontier pilot tech-accelerator program
- April 7, 2011
The Ohio Third Frontier and The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business are searching for the best, young entrepreneurial minds with great ideas for commercially viable technology start-ups. → Full story - Ohio State Tax Clinic helps families and boosts economy
- April 4, 2011
Corporate recruiters have taken notice of students who have volunteered their time at Fisher’s Tax Clinic during winter quarter. → Full story - Ohio State University names commercialization chief
- March 22, 2011
The Ohio State University has named a vice president for technology commercialization. Brian A. Cummings, who helped build a top-tier technology commercialization program at the University of Utah, will lead Ohio State’s strategy to advance the e → Full story - Policy makers choose Fisher for discussion on exports
- March 14, 2011
The Fisher campus was once again the venue for an important federal policy conversation with U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown and Alex Fischer, CEO of Columbus Partnership who were joined via teleconference with Francisco Sánchez, Under Secretary of Comm → Full story - Shell Oil Co. hosts 4th Annual Leadership Conference
- March 14, 2011
Fisher hosted Shell Oil Co. fourth annual Leadership Conference on March 5. The interdisciplinary conference brought together students from across Ohio State with majors in engineering, business and geological sciences. → Full story - Allenby scores triple-play in tier-one marketing journal
- February 28, 2011
Greg Allenby, the Helen C. Kurtz Chair in Marketing, had three research articles published in the January-February 2011 issue of Marketing Science, a top-tier journal for scholars in the field of marketing. → Full story - Study of renegotiated mortgage loans co-authored by Ben-David
- February 14, 2011
One factor, little-known by borrowers, can play a large role in whether banks are willing to renegotiate mortgages with homeowners who are struggling to meet payments. → Full story - Smith first speaker in Fisher Black MBA leadership series
- February 14, 2011
Although Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith is nationally known for his success in collegiate athletics, his professional foundation began in corporate America. → Full story - Dean Poon provides testimony for Ohio legislative committee
- January 31, 2011
Dean Chris Poon testified before Ohio lawmakers at hearings on House Bill 1, which authorizes creation of JobsOhio. → Full story - Marketing research examines consumers' color choices
- January 14, 2011
Most people like to play it safe when combining colors for an article of clothing or outfit, a new study suggests. → Full story - Class project video receives national attention
- January 14, 2011
With the star power of Buckeye football player Dane Sanzenbacher and attention from national media, a YouTube video that started out as a class project has become a viral hit. → Full story - Gov.-elect Kasich announces new development director
- January 7, 2011
Fisher entrepreneurship students were given the first opportunity to pose questions to Ohio’s newly appointed head of business and job development, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Mark Kvamme, during a press conference held by Ohio Governor- → Full story - Kistruck wins best paper award at NYU conference
- December 3, 2010
Geoffrey Kistruck, assistant professor of international business in the Department of Management and Human Resources, received the best paper award at the seventh annual Satter Conference on Social Entrepreneurship held at New York University’s S → Full story
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